According to the study, in one week following the announcement that 2015 was confirmed as the hottest year on record by NASA, CNN aired exactly 57 seconds of climate coverage — compared with more than 12.5 minutes of ads from the American Petroleum Institute. And that analysis doesn’t even include dozens of ads for Koch Industries which “were not energy-focused but did serve to boost the image of the oil billionaire Koch brothers’ primary corporation.”3

Not only is CNN virtually silent on informing the public about the damage being caused by climate change, it is giving a platform to — and legitimizing — the voice of notorious climate deniers like the American Petroleum Institute and the Kochs, who have actively lobbied against climate action and promoted fraudulent doubt of climate change.4

Does CNN simply think climate change is not important? Or are they allowing advertising dollars to actively suppress their climate coverage?

Either way their level of coverage of climate change — the most pressing issue facing all of humanity — should be an embarrassment for the organization whose title is "The Cable News Network." And now is the time to call the organization out.